Carl Sandburg

“A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”

“I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.”

“A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.”

“I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.”

“Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it runs by.”

“I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.”

“I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.”

“We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.”

“Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”

“A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one.”

“When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.”